^^^ The TV clock is started by the caption operator and isn't locked to the official timekeeper's stopwatch, so it's possible and indeed likely they won't agree on exactly when the round should end. To avoid embarrassment and accusations of shenanigans the unofficial TV clock is taken off near the end.

The Opta stats that get collected for every major match. How do they collect the data? The know how many miles each players ran during each game for example. Does each player have a chip in their strip somewhere? That wouldn’t be so difficult to do but when it comes to stats like passes completed that’s pretty hard to automate. Without automation it would take a lot of manpower to collect all this data so I’m curious how it is all done.

rare as rockinghorse shat wrote:If I was to win an obscene amount of money, would I be able to freely give as much as I wanted to, to anyone I wanted to, without facing any sort of tax/inheritance penalties etc?

If so, are there ways to circumvent this? I.e. directly paying their mortgage, or buying a house and selling it to them for a quid etc?

Providing that you live for 7 years after a gift, then you can give as much as you want to whoever. Before 7 years then there's a sliding scale of IHT. You can give as much as you want to your spouse at anytime. If you were to win it in the US and are a British resident for tax purposes, then make sure you fill out the relevant IRS forms and you should get all your winnings.

No easy way to circumvent - definitely not using any of your examples. If you think that you're not going to live another 7 years then you could try setting up trusts to put the money you want to give away into - but they typically then wouldn't get anything until you've died!

rare as rockinghorse shat wrote:If I was to win an obscene amount of money, would I be able to freely give as much as I wanted to, to anyone I wanted to, without facing any sort of tax/inheritance penalties etc?

If so, are there ways to circumvent this? I.e. directly paying their mortgage, or buying a house and selling it to them for a quid etc?

I expect you'd need to claim that you were all in a consortium of some kind. Say you wont £100 million on the lottery and wanted to give aunt Nora £500k you could say that she contributed 1p towards the ticket.

I hope that is true and that lottery winner draw up elaborate documents showing the contributions from each family member.